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Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1887-10-14
ANOTHER HORRIBLE RAIL
ROAD ACCIDENT.
The Chicago q Atlantic Furnishes
The Victims.

KoUTs, IND, Oct. 1.-THE worst |
horrors of Chstsworth were dupli-
Gated here to-day. A dozen blood
stained, smoke be-grlmed, injured
victims of railroad cRrelessness, or
laundering, were brought into the
villages little station house early this
morning, and this afternoon nine
charred corpses, victims of the same
laundering or carelessness, were laid
upon the platform, while three miles
west down the track OF the Chicago
and Atlantic railway, near a lonely
old water tank, piles of feariully tan
gled debris marked the spot where
a collision, seldom equaled for terri
BILE results, had occurred. According
to the best estimate obtainable, for
only an estimate was possible,
fully thirty human lives had been
sacrificed outright and half that num-
Der of persons suffered injuries more
or less serious.
The East-bound express that left
Chicago last night with great load
of passengers, had, without a mo-
ments warning, during temporary
wait, been
SMASHED INTO FROM BEHIND
by a heavily-loaded fast freight,
plunging madly forward in the dark
ness, in hurrying dressed meat to the
markets of the sea-board. Some part
of the machinery of the passenger
engine had been thrown out Of order
during the run from Chicago. A
trifling stop at the water tank would
make it all right, it was thought, and
the stop was accordingly made. Sud-
denly out Of the darkness behind
came the flash of a headlight, the
rush and rattle of many wheels, and
then a mighty crash. Just as at
Chatsworth, the sleeping coach now
got in its deadly work. The massive
frame work of the car was trans
formed into a huge catapult, and
pushed mercilessly forward by the
freight, it crashed into the cars for
ward, smashing their comparatively
light timbers, and making the work
of destruction complete. The wreck
quietly took fire, and the sight of the
shrieking victims and dancing flames
was one never to be forgotten.
THE ENGINEER's STORY.
To-day, on his bed of agony at the
little hotel at Kouts, the engineer OF
the passenger train told the following
story of the terrible disaster: awe
passed No. 40 at Boone Grove on time
and started towards Kouts. No. 49
pulled out Of the station in less than
two minutes behind ue, when they
should have waited much longer.
When we were well away from the
town we could see her lights but q
little way behind. We were not
running very fast because the engine
was ION one side" We had broken
an eccentric strap and were running
but one pair of wheels, which were
running loose. OF course the acct
dent held our speed down alittle, but
we had no idea that the engineer OF
No. 40 would have any difficulty in
keeping off from our heels. The last
time l looked behind there was am
Pile room between us. Westopped at
Boon Grove water-tank and were
there almost a minute before they
struck u.s."
Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1887-10-14

The Knights Of Labor have deemed
it advisable to boycott the Standard
Oil Co., because of its antagonism tc
the Oil Co., of Olean, N. Y. The
Standard Oil Co, had not, at last &C.
counts, made an assignment on ac'
count of the opposition on the part Of
the knights of Labor.
Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1887-10-14

Bowling Green is little worried
about the price of coal going up to
fifteen cents bushel. There is talk
of opening mines near the city,
which will furnish coal at ten cents.
The cause of the raise in rates is due
to a combination formed by the L. &
N. and Green River Navigation Com
nanu
Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1887-10-14

Mr.. August Carl, a young artist
and portrait painter died at Louis
vile Saturday. He was young
man of promise and had just return
ed from a sketching tour.
Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1887-10-14

The New York Herald is to be pub
lished in Paris and New York stimuli
taneously hereafter. The American
news will be cabled across the ocean
for the Paris edition. The papers
will be exactly similar in all respects.
Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1887-10-14

The Enterprise Natural Gas Co., of
Louisville have struck Gas at the cor
ner of Third and Messenger streets.
1t is thought that large flow of gas
will be obtained.
Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1887-10-14

The Telephone Company finding
the people of Memphis would not
stand the raise on the rental of instru-
ments, has concluded to operate un-
der the old contracts.
Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1887-10-14

'Tis pity the baseballists days are
now numbered and he will have to
unman himself until the sap rises in
the spring.
Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1887-10-14

The Virginia Midland submits an
other proposition to Davidson county,
Tennessee, to subscribe 100000 to
the building of that road.
Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1887-10-14

Emma Abbott believes in self de-
Tense, and is willing 10 tackle the pull.
pit single handed.
Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1887-10-14

The Henderson street cars have just
been put on, and the first day treated
the people to free ride.
Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1887-10-14

Hon. Sam. Randle opened the
Piedmont Exposition at Atlanta
Monday.
The Opelousas courier., 1887-11-26
The Neat Worm Industry.

The raising of meal-worms for dealers
in c~age-birds in the large cities is
mostly carried on by Germans, who
make considerable profit by it. The
method of raising them is very simple.
Both the beetle and the larva, which is
the meal-worm, can as q rule be obtained
in feed stores, feed stables, bakeries and
mills. A dozen of each are sufflcients
these are placed in an old fruit can into
the sides of which numerous small per-
forations have been made. o. the bot,
tom of the can is placed an inch layeaof
bran and meal mixed. In this irs|Iayer
a few m~eal-worms are placed, next
comes a layer of two thicknesses of fan
mel or wooden cloth, then a layer of old
biscuit or stale bread broken into very
small pieces, in which more meal worms
and a few of the beetles are placed. And
so layer after layer is built up till the
top of the can is reached, which is
covered over with mosquito netting or
old muslin, to prevent the perfect
beetles from making their escape. The
can is then placed in a dark, warm,
slightly damp location. When sup
plying the meal-worms with fluid
food, which they will require once q
month, sheets of straw paper soaked in
new ale or sweetened tea are introduced
between the layers of cloth; these sheets
of paper they will eagerly devour, so
fond are the worms of the taste of malt
liquor, tea and sugar.
The price paid for meal-wormsin New
York ranges from ten to twelve cents
per hundred, and the price asked by
bird dealers is twenty cents per hun
dred. This may seem exorbitant, but
the trouble of feeding them, hunting
them up between the layers of flannel,
and of counting these nimble and slip
perry creatures. is, after all, considerable.
The meal-worm is fed to all soft-billed
or insect eating cage-birds. When a
moeking bird OF robin ceases to sing,
acts mopish, and ruffs up its feathers,
the first medicine prescribed by a bird
dealer is a liberal diet of meal-worms.
With seed eating birds the only kind I
know that meal-worms are fed to occa-
sionally are the cardinals and canaries;
for soft-billed birds the usual number
given is from six to eight a day.--[New
York Post, o
The Opelousas courier., 1887-11-26
PomegytsE Magnetic Ore.

Al Georgia paper tells Of a man who
got lost In d cornfeld, and after a days
search his friends found him sitting on
I'M ear near the top of the stalk. That
rather lays IL over u corn but it doesn't
compare with the simple virtues of our
magnetic iron mines. They possess an
pre that draws just d little. The work
men all wear moccasins because it
draws The lacks out Of shoes. Houses
III the vicinity Of our mines have to be
bolted together, a. nails would all pun
out over night. A wild duck that had
III u bhoughtless moment swallowed d
few domestic hairpins tried ii vain I'd
ay over the mines, but was drawn to
earth BY the reuorselcss power of mag
netic attraction. Tron-clad vessels are
often attracted shoreward and left help
Iess upon The beach, while people with
too aaueh iron Ii their blood are OYER
come ~ y ] trance ana sleep Oh III the
perpetual delights of sn earthly nirvana.
such aEe i fsw of the wonders al Ills
Fgwsr hut ~ greatest achieve
ue attracting he irony of fhs
Twin Cities Georgia may have TIE
pyA bas MAsf comes q i harvest u
Ng9 Minnesota takes hs
R0IaEh Paraaxsp
The Opelousas courier., 1887-11-26
sal bulletin Of the Minister Of

nessia bulletin Of the Minister of
Agriculture an~ Ge of the italian
government containing an elaborate re-
port on The rapid increase Of the pro-
1uction Of oranges and lemons ID this
country and the effect on the market
FOR Italian fruit, has been received.
The report is made by the Italian Con-
nl-General il this country. and is based
~ information furnished by fruit deal
srs and growers in all parts Of the Unit
"a States. The acreage already planted
with orange trees is stated as being
5000 ii California, so, 900 in Florida
md 8, 900 In Louisiana; and Of lemons,
California 5000 and Florida 10, 900.
The acreage adapted to the cultivation
Df the fruit and not in use, is placed at
500, 900 ii California and considerable
ii Florida and Louisiana. The number
# orange trees now planted is 2, 900, 600
ii California, 5000, 900 in Florida and
600, 900 IN Louisiana. OF lemon trees
here are $50, 900 in California aud $780,
300 II Florida. The trees will produce
from three to five boxes Of fruit each,
and will last from fiftyQto 2 hundred
wears.
The Opelousas courier., 1887-11-26

we had best find the knife" So the
search began again.
At 8 o'clock Mr.. Benedict again
looked at his watch.
cit is now too dark to find the knife
| without a lantern, and ours we lent to
| Uncle Job last week."
''Then let us go in to supper, says
| Mrs. Benedict.
ITO tea, mamma" suggested Hattie.
"Youknow there is nothing but tea and
sugar and milk"
"And butter" added Johnny, who
never was known to forget butter.
There are also some strawberries on
the front piazza" said Mr.. Benedict.
"Hattie and Florence, you will have
tt. hull them first" said their mother.
The family sat down in the sitting-room,
where Mrs. Benedict had lighteda lamp,
to await the strawberries. 1t was a
large family, and Mr.. Benedict had pro-
vided four boxes.
"One does not like to be able to count
his Strawberries" said he, by way of
apology for his extravaganza.
OF course, it took the girls a great
while to hull so many strawberries. At
8 o'clock the family sat down to tea.
There was not much to eat, to be sure,--
only tea and strawberries; but these last
were delicious, and luckily i'll reasonable
abundance. And, as all were hungry,
it was 10 o'clock when they rose from
the table. Mr.. Benedict looked at his
watch.
81 think we will not go to the con-
cert this evening" said he. "Annita is
already asleep; snd, as the tea things
are to be cared for, it might be too late
when all were ready"
The girls were greatly disappointed,
and so was San on account of his new
boots
The next morning, when Johnny went
to the pasture with the COW he found
one of Annita's dolls, very straight and
very ~stiff-looking, standing up straight
in the ground near the pasture bars. 1t
had a smooth ivory face, without eyes,
nose or mouth. On taking off its
clothes, it proved to be the carving
knife.
II told you twas only a little kind o
lost" said Annita. 1.-THE Universalist.
The Opelousas courier., 1887-11-26
A Big Nugget of Gold.

Quite recently an extraordinary Incl
dent In the recent mining history of the
colony occurred when an immense mug
get, weighing about hfty-one pounds of
pure gold, was unearthed in the nov
famous Midas miae at Sulky Gully.
This mine is on the property of Sir Will
liam Clarke, known as Bowling Forest.
and on several occasions lately nuggets
varying IN size, though small, have been
obtained. This discovery, however,
eclipses anythingo of the kind that has
been known for many year. in Victoria.
The news of it created consider able ex-
element in this city. The first public
intimation was obtained in a rather
curious manner A man was observed
by the large crowd of shareholders
who congregate at the corner to
be walking down sturt street carry
ing a sack containing what to appear
ance was a small pig, but his strange bur-
den was soon found to be the nugget,
and he was followed by an excited and
questioning crowd.
The nugget is fiat, and has something
the contour of a colossal hand held open.
with the thumb and fingers close to-
gether. It's greatest length p 10 1-2
inches and breadth 8 1-2 inches, and it
varies in thickness up to 2 1-s inches.
It is apparently pure gold, and weighs
SIT ounces. It was found in the northd
west main drive, in the direction of the
No. 2 shaft. 1870 feet from the surface,
and a spot fifty feet from where the
Lady Brassey nugget was found. A
cast wiltbe taken of the nugget before
it is broken up. 1t is estimated to con-
tain ffty-one pounds of pure gold, worth
about e51 per pound, and the find rep
resents an addition to the company's
revenue of about SO, 6O0.-[Melbourne
(Australia) Argus.
The Opelousas courier., 1887-11-26

Mr. Andrew Carnegie, the wealthy
Pittsburg manufacturer, speaking at a
meeting in Dunfcrmline, Scotland, said
'tthe hero of the future would not be
the man who could boast of having TAX
en- life, but he who saved or greatly
served his fellows. 1t was quite proper
for a man to fight in defence of his coun-
try, but it was morally wrong for him
to enlist into the army as a profession,
and go forth and slay his fellow maj
irrespective of the justice of the
cause for which he drew the sword"
The Opelousas courier., 1887-11-26
Birds KILLED by Liberty's light.


The torch bearing goddess of Bedloe's
Island does not trim her hat with hum
ming birds, nor adorn her robes with
the bright plumage of feathered crea-
lures. She is, nevertheless, an innocent
cause of death to a great many bifAs, OF
all sizes and c%olors, and representing
numerous species, without discrimina.
ton. The fatal instrument of decoy
and destruction isAhe vast cluster oil
electric lights WITCH she holds aloft in
neeAF right HANDY 300 feet above the
N]ers of sea, and whose powerful
and ndd5s are vfi9fble to the human eye
q distance of nearly forty miles.
This is the season of migration;
and the number of winged wanderers OF
the air that dash themselves against
the deceptive beacon, and fall back
stunned or dead is almost incredible.
One morning recently, after thee first
cold wave had set the birds flying
southwark, the officers on the island
picked DIP no less than /, 375 downy lit
tie dead bodies. Many of them were
beautiful creatures, and the sight was
pitiful. There were among them speci-
mems OF more than one hundred distinct
species. The largest bird was a Cana
dian woodpecker. measuring thirteen
inches from wing to wing. The smallest
was an exquisite little humming- bird,
one inch long.
An examination proved that the heat
of the light had blinded the unfortunate
creatures. In some cases their brains
were actually roasted. Comparatively
few of them were dashed to death, but
nearly all were fatally burned and
blinded. - Frank Leslie's.
The Opelousas courier., 1887-11-26

Otter Belt, one Of the greatest Of Co
manche chiefs, died lately in Indian
Territory. Five minutes before his
death they held him erect and rugged
him out in his best war costume. They
painted him red, set his war bonnet on
bis head, tied up his hair in beaver
skins, and laid him down just as he
I'D. Then his five wives took sharp
butcher knives, slashed their faces with
long, deep cuts, cut themselves in other
places, and beat their bleeding bodies
ind pulled their hair. They also burned
everything they had-tepees, furniture,
md ven most Of the clothing they had
IN. Al big crowd Of bucks looked on
ind killed ten horses, including a favor
Ito team Of Fress Addington, on whose
ranch Otter Belt lived. @
The Opelousas courier., 1887-11-26

Inc l1GLte mamma iOOkeu very tlEcu
but she assented with her whole hear
to what Seth said. Here was her world
These two were her treasures.
They had barely been able to pay tn
interest On their home with all of Seth;
"fggerin'," when the baby was taker
very ill and a doctor was called in.
Then followed q dreadful siege o
sickness. The doctor came three or foul
times a day. The father and mothe
were watchers and nurses themselves
bnt at last the little fellow was savet
and the long, dreadful anxiety was over
Then Seth brought out that well
known pencil and paper.
sTve been fggerin'," he said, but thi
time more gravely thsesaz1a1was his wont
'and it seems to me now, if nuthins
happens, that We'll have the house ant
lot paid for inside of five years-tha
amt long, Neelie, is it?'
Neelie did not answer. She was look
ing at the thin hand, oh, so much thin
ner than hers had ever been-that helt
the fatal pencil in such a jaunty way
Her eyes were full of tears.
"You're worn out" he said kindly
"but you needn't worry dear; the baby
all right, and I've been iggerin'."
'1've been figuring too," said Neelie
"and after this 1 am going to be &C
%countant of the firm. You've lost you
place, Seth, at the store, but I've take,
it. I'm glad learned bookkeeping an(
I need a change Of work. Sister Alic'
is coming to take care of the house ant
the baby, and you are to take q AGA.
ton"
He gave her one stricken look, ther
bowed his head on his arm and if h,
wept it did honor to his manhood anc
was naught to be ashamed of, sinc'
it was Gods will that he should be lai6
aside.
The doctor was at the bottom of ii
all. He saw that worry and %privation
and hope deferred, had Slapped the very
depths of Seth Dakin's life, and tina
now the end was very near.
Brave Neelie! true little wife! She
went down to the store every morning,
swallowing hard all the way to keep
down the sobs she had time to utter.
She is there yet, clad in her widows
weeds, working daily with one strong,
resolute purpose-to keep Seth's home
for Seth's boy-and she will do it, never
doubt.
The end came happily to Seth. Hs
was propped up in bed, looking at the
sunset with fading, wistiul eyes. Sud
denly he turned to Neelie.
GIVE been iggerin'," he said in the
old cheerful way; GIVE fggered it all
out--and there's a---balance--a- bal.
ance-Neelie, dear-ahead. y Detroit
Free Press.
The Opelousas courier., 1887-11-26

"A pathetic tale of the hardships Of
poverty comes from New York. Mrs.
sfNed" Murphy, Of Mulberry street,
supports herself and two little children
by doing washing. The other day Mrs.
Murphy carried to one of her customers
) basket of clean clothes and returned
home with two one dollar bills, the first
money she had earned for several days.
She laid it on the table and while her
back was turned her son Tommy, who
hungry, proceeded to devour the
bills. He had succeeded in destroying
j portion Of each when discovered.S A
kind neighbor interested himself in the
Ease and succeeded in getting the two
bills exchanged for good ones at the
Sub Treasury.
The Opelousas courier., 1887-11-26

HHE N&
The series of railroad accidents of last
winter, with the attendant fire horrors,
impeiled the Massachusetts, legislature
to pass a law requiring the companies to
abandon the use of common stoves for
car heating purposes and substitute sys-
TENS of heating approved by the rail-
road commissioners. The law was to
take effect Immediately. Under the
act, the railroads of the state are very
generally supplying themselves with i'm
proved systems, though, as yet, steam
heating from the engine has not been
introduced, owing to practical diff
culties in the way. q
The Opelousas courier., 1887-11-26
ONLY A FEW LEFT.
Extinction of the Buffalo on Our
Western Plains.
Great Heaps of Skeletons
Where Once They Roamed.

The time was when a buffalo hunter
would have scorned the idea Of gather
ing up dry bones for a living, writes
w. T. Hornaday in the Cosmopolitan.
Indeed, it often happened that his royal
highness would not even deign to skin
the buffalo that his own rifle brought
down. But, thanks to his rcck-
less improvidence, "Othello's occupa-
tons gone" The buffalo are all dead
and he must choose between
punching COWS and picking up bones.
To this extent, the slain buffalo is
his own avenger. At various points
along the line of the Northern Pacific
railway westward from jamestown, Da-
skpta, buffalo bones lay piled in great
heaps beside the track, waiting for ship
ment. They are the only monuments
that remain to the American bison,
which, to quote the great original OBJ
servation of every tenderfoot, "once
roamed in vast herds over these bound
less prairies." In a short time, = even
the bones will all be gathered up, and
nothing whatever remain to mark the
presence upon this earth of eight mil
lion bison at one time save what can be
found in the museums, the geological
gardens, or the tertiary deposits of the
oarth itcolf To,11 " u-or - ovt orrpi
nation be more complete or far-reaching
in it's results!
From the Red Buttcs onward you see
where the millions have gone. This
was once a famous buffalo range, and
now the bleaching skeletons lie scattered
thickly all along the trail. Like CHASTITY
monuments of slaughter, these ugly
excrescences stand out in bold relief on
the smooth, hard surface of the prairie,
from the huge bull skeletons, lying
close beside the wagon trail to those far
back in the bad lands, where they are
merely dark specks in the distance.
They lie to-day precisely as they fell
four years ago, except that the. flesh is
no longer upon them. The head
stretches far forward, as if for its last
gasp, and the legs lie helplessly upon
the turf with precisely the same curves
as when they moved for the last time.
Now and then you come to a place
where the hunter got a "stand'' on a
'bunch," and from his hiding place in
the head of a gulley or amongst the
rocksofired leisurely with his 4O-12O
Sharp's rifle, at the rate of a shot every
two or three minutes until every buffalo
of the bunch had fallen. Here you can
count seventeen skeletons on a little
more than an acre, and near by
are fourteen more that evidently fell
at the same time. The powerful effect
of the strong, parching winds and
the intense dry heat of summer
has literally stripped the flesh from the
bones, but the skeletons lie precisely as
they fell. The bones are still held to-
gether by a few dried-up ligaments, but
are bleached as white as snow. Some
times we found immense skeletons that
were absolutely perfect, ever to the tinB
carpal and tarsal bones the size of a
hazel-nut. OF these dry skeletons, we
selected eight of the finest and largest,
and they are now cached in the storage
rooms of the National Museum against
the great famine for bison that will soon
set in. |